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I T TA K ES A village

by Kendall Morgan

Master builders Buford Hawthorne assure living in Dallas is a luxury for their clients.

builders since high school, he started freelancing in construction post-college.

One of the city’s top home builders, the 22-year-old firm founded by Barry Buford has built an impeccable reputation by becoming the engine that assures every dream home comes in on time and budget.

“I started working for a builder in North Dallas, and that just kind of evolved,” he recalls. “We started our group in ‘98, and around 2005 we started to build just custom, no spec homes. We’d get brought in a lot of times by architects, and that’s the main thing we do— architectural work.”

Buford originally earned a degree in economics at Southern Methodist University. As he had worked with

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By 2003, Gabriel Hawthorne had been introduced to his future partner while working as a project manager.

Because Buford was so busy, Hawthorne’s skill set was the perfect ingredient for the firm to expand.

“He needed someone to keep an eye on a couple of new houses he had coming up,” says Hawthorne. “But we complement each other—everybody we work with, whoever is up for the next house, is who gets it depending on where we are with a project. I’m more the project manager, where Barry is the frontman. he does the interview and the bidding, and I’m in the field.”

At the time of Buford Hawthorne’s initial success, modernism wasn’t an aesthetic force in the city. Like all fashionable trends, local architecture cycled through windows of traditionalism, Spanish colonialism—even faux chateau—before an appreciation for the innovative technology, minimalist lines, and open floorplans influenced by mid-century design returned to the fore.

“There were some architects doing it back in the day like Frank Welch, Lionel Morrison and Bodrun+Fruit, but most pretty much choose a style and work within that style,” explains Buford. “It’s kind of a herd mentality in Dallas.

If people started to like turrets and old-world European, the whole thing would go in that direction for a few years.”

By the end of the ‘90s the pendulum had swung, and Buford Hawthorne’s longtime collaboration with Bernbaum-Magadini, in particular, helped them solidify modernism as a specialty of their company. Having completed over a dozen projects for the architects, the partners have grown to understand what makes a contemporary home stand out in a crowded mix of styles and aesthetics.

“Contemporary is so much brighter, there’s so much more light to it,” says Buford. “It’s hard to do it and it’s more

expensive than traditional. Everything is exposed. It has to be very linear and perfect, but if you want it and can afford it, it’s definitely a bigger piece of the pie than it was 15 years ago. We picked our niche, but you have to do it right. “ Because everything from glass packages to cabinetry drives up the cost, making sure each detail is specified before construction is key to a modern home’s success.

Buford prefers to be involved as early in the process as possible, as it tends to ensure things go even more smoothly. The partners will sometimes help clients source an architect that perfectly suits their project before building a team that includes an engineer, interior designer, lighting designer, and landscape designer— sometimes even an art consultant.

“When the interior and landscape drawings are done, you price everything, and if you haven’t been a part of the process from the beginning, who knows what will happen? What’s great about working with people who worked with you in the past, they trust you with this particular job. They see every invoice. It’s fully transparent, and there’s no secret to it,” he says.

The firm’s not-so-secret weapon is their stable of master craftspeople specializing in cabinetry, glass, HVAC, iron and steel, plumbing, paint, lighting, marble, stucco, and woodwork (among other disciplines).

Divided into two teams for coverage, they often encompass generations of artisans working together on a single project to assure it lives up to Buford Hawthorne standards.

Hawthorne, who was made partner in 2014, utilizes his unmatched organizational skills and copious

note taking to assure nothing falls between the cracks.

Running everything behind the scenes from a pop-up HQ set up in a home’s garage, he balances orders of fixtures and materials, anticipates weather delays, and manages tradesmen with a scheduling sleight of hand and rhythm all his own.

“With the different trades, you have to work with being proactive and staying ahead of the curve,” he explains. “If you aren’t prepared, you’ll have to stop, start and leave (construction), and that’s not good for anybody. These

houses get so complicated, and there are so many things that can be missed. I think when you see a house going up, you don’t realize how much goes on behind the scenes.” Ultimately, knowing their clients are satisfied is what makes all the hard work worth it.

Hawthorne says, “With brand-new houses, you have to tweak things, so we’ll go back to do service work or touch-ups. Seeing the client happy in their home with the furnishings and the landscape starting to grow—that’s the most rewarding and the best part.” // bufordhawthorne.com

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by Kendall Morgan

For Dallas artist Jon Flaming, Texas is a state of mind.

such disparate inspirations as Oscar-winning filmmaker Saul Bass, outsider artist Bill Traylor, and Picasso.

The Richardson-based talent has built a thriving career with his modernist twist on Lone Star iconography. His oversized paintings and vivid prints, BBQ joints, rattlesnakes, and cowboys are rendered in a minimalist style and desert-hued palette of burnt orange, chocolate brown, and sage green. Equally influenced by cubism and graphic design, a viewer of the works might pick up

“It’s very graphic, bold, and there are primitive elements to it, there are modern elements, there are folk art elements,” Flaming says of his aesthetic. “You can sometimes see Van Gogh or Cézanne and Matisse in there. There’s nothing new under the sun, but you can come up with something original by gathering all the different parts and pieces and putting it in your melting

pot, and that’s what I’ve done over the years. I’m going to steal the best of these guys’ influences and make them my own and create my own look.”

Flaming had years to hone his focus. Growing up in Richardson, he was immersed in both music and art, but decided to aim for a more stable graphic design career. After earning his degree at Texas State University, he worked for Sullivan Perkins before launching his own eponymous company in 1993, which lasted over 25 years.

“I knew that design and branding were going to be more consistent for me than diving directly into fine art,” he explains. “I focused on not only being the best designer I could be but also learning the business. I’m very much a left-brain person as much as I am a right-brain person, and you kind of have to be to run a business. I know many extremely talented artists that don’t know how to do that.”

Campaigns for clients such as Neiman Marcus, Forbes, FedEx, and Pepsi got him attention and awards, but

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Flaming still devoted hours to his side hustle, painting until 2am most nights in his backyard studio. In the mid-’90s, he garnered his first show at David Dike Fine Art, a local gallery that still shows his work. By 2017, he decided to leap full time into art.

“Once our kids were out of college and married, my wife and I had more time and money to do other things. I was building the business behind the scenes at night and building quality in the pursuit of my art all along. So once I decided to pull the trigger and leave branding behind, I’d already had a running start.”

Flaming had been a big fan of the Western genre since he was a child spending time on his grandparent’s Kansas cattle ranch. Born in 1962, he grew up in the middle of the space race, yet his fantasies remained p articularly landlocked.

“My memories were being around cattle and cowboys and ranchers, and shows like ‘The Rifleman’ and ‘The Lone Ranger’ were interesting to me. The idea of the cowboy and the West and the mystery and romance of it hit me big time. As an adult, I’ve still not shrugged that off, nor do I want to. That’s really why I’m doing these big canvases—I’m pushing that epic cowboy thing further in a big, bold graphic way.”

Flaming’s paintings typically range from three-by-four feet to four-by-six feet, a scale honoring the “gentle giant” heroes and heroines he chooses to portray. Because old school painters like Remington, Russell, Dunton, and

Dixon had cornered the market on classical iconography, the primarily self-taught Flaming felt compelled to deliver a more modern take on the genre, and collectors responded enthusiastically.

“It’s been embraced by older generations, younger generations, and everybody in between,” he says. “The staunch hard-core stereotypically Western art diehards will never own a piece of modern cowboy art, which I totally get, but there’s a younger wealthy demographic of people who are buying these pieces because they love Western art but don’t want to hang their parents’ art in a big modern house. “ Through his graphic design work with the John Wayne Film Festival and friendship with the Wayne family, his art was brought to the attention of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, where he exhibited two pieces. He is also in the Grace Museum’s permanent collection in Abilene, the San Angelo Museum of Art, and the Tyler Museum of Art. But it’s his upcoming one-person show “Westland,” opening October 8th at the Museum of the Southwest in Midland, Texas, that will allow viewers to examine the most extensive scope of Flaming’s talent to date.

“Westland” is also an opportunity to show off a completely different medium the artist has been exploring. Alongside his paintings, watercolors, and sculptural works, he’ll be unveiling a photographic series shot on his iPhone. Utilizing a 1950s TV found in a friend’s mid-century home, he frames the varying scenery across the seven regions in

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“When I see something interesting, I pull over to the side of the road. It was really just something for fun, but I’m a big advocate of having side projects. I’m up to 180 images so far, and there’s talk of doing a book.”

As Flaming continues with his practice, he sees his larger-than-life canvases continue to evolve in an even more abstract way. Yet the flavor—and the fantasy— of the West will always be at the heart of what he creates.

“There’s a lot of artists there that find a style then camp out on it and die with it—I can’t think of anything more boring. I like my style to evolve and move forward. But the most important thing is, I’m loving what I’m doing, and the gratifying part is seeing other people appreciate it and purchase it. I get to wake up every day and draw pictures! I don’t take that for granted at all.”

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Ten years ago, in Downtown Dallas, if you looked up, you saw lots of shiny high rise buildings and if you looked down, you saw asphalt, streets and parking lots. Today there are four modern parks being built where formerly only asphalt and parking spaces existed.

Parks for Downtown Dallas foundation, 501(c)(3) established in 2015 is working with the City of Dallas to transforming the blacktop into green space. From the West End to the Belo Garden to Carpenter Plaza, across downtown these new parks will transform the urban environment and making Dallas a more livable place.

West End Square A stretch of asphalt, formerly a parking lot for Spaghetti Warehouse will soon become West End Square. It is the second of four priority parks recommended in the 2013 Downtown Parks Master Plan Update. Designed

by Landscape architecture firm James Corner Field Operations, the design will complement the historic buildings of the area, while using new innovations to create a much-needed park in a rapidly growing area.

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The design includes new versions of classic porch swings, an outdoor workroom, game tables and a water feature anchored by a steel trellis that provides shade and acts as an armature for the technologies that operate the park. West End Square will be a modern oasis for the district’s growing urban population and is projected to open sometime next year.

Carpenter Park On the eastern edge of downtown lies Carpenter Plaza. A lot of people might not even recognize this spot as a park since much of it was lost when the freeway system was reconfigured. Originally dedicated in 1981 the remnants of the plaza will be included in a much larger park that was approved in June by the City Council and is a joint project of Parks for Downtown Dallas Foundation, the Carpenter Family and the Dallas Park and Recreation Department.

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Dallasites might recognize one feature of the park, the monumental sculpture by Robert Irwin’s called Portal Park Slice. The massive steel portal will be reimagined by the artist for the renovated park. An additional piece of public art, Robert Berks’ statue of John W. Carpenter will also be reinstalled in the park.

The design for the new 5.6-acre park includes a children’s environmental play, dog park, basketball court, an interactive fountain, and a pavilion to accommodate a park office and restrooms. Construction is under way and completion is projected for sometime in 2022.

Harwood Park In the area of Dallas called East Quarter, near the Farmers Market and nestled in a cluster of historic buildings was a collection of parking lots that are now becoming Harwood Park. Bounded by Harwood, Jackson, Pearl and Young Streets, the 3.8-acre site is being sculpted into a modern urban park thanks in part to generous donations by The Decherd Foundation and Maureen and Robert Decherd. Under the administration of Parks for Downtown Dallas and designed by Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, construction of the park will start in 2021.

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Designs include a large public lawn for outdoor activities, numerous trees for shade and seating areas for visitors as well as a water feature. Public input on the park emphasized the importance of pubic artworks to be included as well as areas for dogs and an event stage.

Pacific Plaza In the heart of downtown Pacific Plaza serves as a centerpiece of the Harwood Street Pedestrian Corridor running from Klyde Warren Park to Main Street Garden to the Farmers Market. Opened in 2018 the park transformed

another parking lot into livable green space. 101,250 square feet of asphalt was removed to create the 100% accessible and sustainability-focused 3.74 acre park. Thirty-two existing trees preserved in the construction and 144 new trees planted in the park to provide shade and beauty to the space. A circular pavilion with a punched steel roof acts as a centerpiece. For the trivia buff, the holes in the roof are actually morse code for the names of hundreds of Texas cities.

Belo Gardens Located in the center of Downtown Dallas at 1014 Main Street, the 1.7-acre park, was also previously a surface parking lot. It opened to the public in the spring of 2012 and was a project of The Belo Foundation, Belo Corp., Maureen and Robert Decherd, and the City of Dallas Park and Recreation Department.

Since it’s initial opening and success with the public the park has been relandscaped including planting of over 4,000 perennials and grasses. New garden fencing was added to minimize foot traffic through the flower and grass beds and upgrades to the pumps powering the water feature were installed.

The replanting was completed in summer of this year and includes Mexican Feather Grass, Inland Seas Oats, Gulf Muhly, Lovegrass, and Miscanthus as well as new perennial flowers for color, over 4000 plants in all.

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Not that long ago the idea of living in Downtown seemed unappealing. There were few amenities that make a neighborhood livable, like supermarkets and convenience stores. Less appealing was the lack of places for relaxation and recreation outdoors. With the addition of Klyde Warren Park in 2012 that all began to change. The area above Woodall-Rogers Freeway was reclaimed by covering the recessed freeway and creating over 5 acres of green space and public park. The addition of the new parks under the partnership between the City of Dallas and Parks for Downtown Dallas Foundation are transforming the center city into a place designed for people to both work and live. parksfordowntowndallas.org

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Texas Made Modern: The Art Of Everett Spruce The Amon Carter Museum of American Art

For a Dreamer of Houses The Dallas Museum of Art

Berruguete Through the Lens: Photographs from a Barcelona Archive The Meadows Museum

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